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How can an almond help with digestion but also be indigestible?

How can an almond help with digestion but also be indigestible?


How can an almond help with digestion but also be indigestible?

Posted: 14 Mar 2022 07:00 AM PDT

Apparently it's called "roughage". It is "fibrous indigestible material in vegetable foods which aids the passage of food and waste products through the gut" which for example can be an almond. How come there are so many whole grains, nuts, seeds, legumes, fruits, and vegetables, that your body can't digest, but also helps digestion? To the uneducated mind, it sounds like an oxymoron.

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Would it be correct to say that the brain is built around a binary language, given that either a certain neuron is firing or it is not?

Posted: 14 Mar 2022 05:46 AM PDT

Why do citrus fruits generally have a high concentration of Vitamin C(e.g Ascorbic Acid)?

Posted: 14 Mar 2022 05:33 AM PDT

Why do we launch telescopes into space?

Posted: 14 Mar 2022 01:15 AM PDT

For example, obviously, the James Webb Space Telescope. It's going very very far away from us and the obvious google answer is "clearer picture" because of atmosphere stuff. Ok, I can see that. But why launch them so far? I'm asking because with the universe being as big as it is, what difference does a million miles really make to help us better understand the formation of the universe? Why not just launch it to the edge of the atmosphere?

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What caused this geological feature?

Posted: 13 Mar 2022 02:53 PM PDT

Was out for a hike with the kids recently in central Kentucky, and saw this feature.

https://imgur.com/a/px7FoBJ

Apparently it's only visible during winter, otherwise it's obscured by the trees. But there's this perfectly level discontinuity across every hill. What is going on there?

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